The Arizona sentinel., 1887-12-10
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

unclcuG DdFrletS 50 1dr itS W oSilu bA
envoy to Japan, but the government
was so poor that it could not support
him, and, soon coming to the end OF
his resources, he had to ask aid OF the
japanese Government to avoid being
put in desperate straits.
According to Sir Walter Butler
person may now live for weeks and
months in New ZEALAND without see
ing single specimen OF the birds
originally existing in that colony. In
the settled districts they have been re-
placed by birds of foreign origin, and
ornithologlsts are apprehensive thatthe
indigenous species will wholly dIsap-
pear in the course of q few years -
N y Ledger.
The English army consists noml-
nally of 211, 474 officers and men, ouU
it is said that only one army corps can
actually be got in the field ana tnat
only by frantic makeshiftS. VI the
II $40 officers and men Stationed IN
ENGLAND it is alleged that 10 OBJ are
bows under nineteen and that l0.OOO
more arc under twenty.
The native merchants of China
are said to be inveterate swindlers. A
foreign dealer at Tientsin recently
contrac' for fifteen hundred bales of
camels' wool, guaranteed free of dirt
and sand. When the first instalment
had paSsel through the cleaning ma
chine So per cent. of its gross weight
was found to be sand and gravel, and
besides that the wool had been
wet to make the dirt stick in, and also
make it heavier
in China all the roads except the
imperial highways are tracks over
private land. The owner docs all he
can to restrict them. When the soil
washes down into the rOad-the road
is always deeper than the land-the
owner digs out the road TO get back
his soil with interest This makes the
roads in the rainy season SUGGESTIONS
of deep puddles. and over all Northern
China traffic is suspended for four or
five months every year on occount of
the impaSsability of the roads.
Daring recent sitting of the
Council-General of the Bouches-du-
Rhone a committee appointed to ex-
amino the finances found that eight
hundred francs year was paid 10 the
guardians of the tower" Investiga-
lion showed that the tower had been
suppressed since 1867; q total, there
fore, of sixteen thousand francs having
been paid for guarding nothing for
twenty years. At ST. Cloud an en-
ploye of the palace still received n sal
airy for waxing The floor. The palace
was bombarded into ruins in Is 20.
The tower which is being erected
by the r lssians on the highest point
of the Mount of Olives is already sew
eral stories high, and but one more is
to be added. 1t is to be so high that
both the Med iterranean and Dead Sea
may be seen from the top. A number
of bells will be placed in the tower. In
digging the foundation seven Christian
graves were found together. with an
inscription in Greek. in which the
wold "Stephanus' could be deci-
phered.
As brick and stone are now large
ly used in Japan for building purposes,
the government of that country de-
sires to take such measures as will be
most likely to prevent their destruc
ton by earthquakes, and to this enc
the Japanese Minister of Education
has requested recommendations from
various scientific bodies as TO the bes
type of edifice TO resist the shocks re-
sulting from subterranean disturb.
ance. In former times wood only
was used rs material for the con
s,ruction of houses in Japan.-N Y
Ledgcr
An account of some interestin Q
ancient flint mines discovered near
Mur-de- Barrez, France, has beer
given by NJ Marcelin Boule. The
flints formed a bed underlying some
twenty feet of chalk, in which narrow
shafts and galleries, still bearing the
marks of the rude deer-horn picks,
were excavated. The roofs of tho
galleries were supper, ed by pillar:
and props rs in modern mining. bu
the results of cave-ins are still to b.
seen in tools crushed between faller
rocks. Near the shafts are the re
mains of ancient workshops, where
the flint was worked into various
articles used in the age of polished
! stone. -ArEd11SGU TraUeier.
"A Paris worklng-man named
Barthes asked his wife to look dow
well. and as she did so pushed he
/ in. When she came to the surface
and screamed for help he let dow
the bucket, and she clinging to it
drew her up, making her think he wa
going to save her. When nearly t,
the top he let her drop again into TIL
well, and, as she still refused to die
he flung large stones on her. TIL
neighbOrs intcrfered, and one of then
put ladder down and brought tn
woman, still alive, up on if, the hus
banI, meantime, doing every thing il
his power to hinder the rescuers. H
was sentenced to fifteen years pena
servitude.